Bill, Leo is free and he and I will fish Saturday. Leo will bring his El Salto pictures and will hold a furled leader clinic at lunch. I'm sure he'll bring a pocket full of poppers as well. He refuses to sell them but is is big into trading!
I'll bring some of my flip-flop popper heads, preshaped, and some tying materials and show how one is assembled. They are UNSINKABLE, INDESTRUCTIBLE, and catch lots of fish! Sorry HairStacker, they are NOT works of art like your hair bugs are. I'll also bring the rotary tool and shape some foam heads if power is available.
Since the event is going to be May lunch should be a fairly lazy 1 1/2 to 2 hour affair during the quiet part of the day, say, 1pm to 3pm. That's generally the slowest time of the day. Sometimes during early May though the bite goes on ALL DAY!
If you like, we can do the tying and furled leader demo while we're waiting for the coals to get right on the BBQ for cooking.
Of course, it would be great if others joined in and brought something to the outing that they could share as well. I'd love to see HairStacker painstakingly tie one of his trophy bugs!
If it's OK with everyone else, does the above sound OK. How about a definate time for lunch? Does 1pm to 3mp sound good?
For those coming, make sure to make an offering to the wind gods sometime during the week prior to the event! It doesn't have to be your first born child or your best hunting dog. Maybe just leave a BBQed rib on the plate un-eatten one day or leave the crust on a piece of toast!
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I even have a tiny vice with a wood screw for a base. It was designed by a friend of mine to be screwed into a log or piece of wood streamside. Along with it I carried enough dubbing, hackle, hooks and thread to tie nymphs down to size 20 and up to size 12. When I used to tromp the Sierra streams I used it quite frequently. The flies were not shadow box material but were fine for catching fish.
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